City of Death Sprue Photos

 Warhammer 40k  3 Responses »
Mar 212006
 

Flickr user binxpaint has taken some shots of upcoming releases from the Atlanta Games Day. They include one I found particularly interesting as it shows a City of Death modular plastic building sprue. There’s another shot too, this one is blurred unfortunately.

The plastic panels look like they could be very useful for general sci-fi terrain. It’s just a pity several on the each of the sprues seems to be battle damaged already. I would have preferred to have a sprue of entirely intact panels and then let us damage them ourselves. However it’s likely these two sprues don’t represent the entire range…

Extracted from a post on Tabletop Gaming News.

 Posted by at 10:05 am

Dustan’s Jungle Table

 Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy  5 Responses »
Mar 202006
 

Dustan's Jungle Table As I haven’t made much progress on any of my projects recently (still casting blocks for the Cathedral), here’s another one of Dustan’s fine textured tables.

This one is an generic ‘jungle’ table that can be used for both Warhammer Fantasy and 40k battles. Although in my opinion, without the trees and hills it could also be festering Chaos terrain where the earth has been torn open by some unnatural force…

Dustan's Jungle Table It’s constructed from cheap sheet ‘white’ polystyrene glued over MDF sections. The large crevasses were melted into the foam using a soldering iron. It was then given a skim coat of good old Selley’s PollyFilla (a product I’m using extensively on my incomplete Flames of War North African table) and then painted green before being covered over with PVA and static grass.

Pollyfilla adheres really well to foam products and dries to a very hard coat. The only downside is it can be a little brittle in my experience which can lead to cracking later on.

Dustan's Jungle Table From memory I believe the water features are several layers of floor varnish product. I think Dustan had some issues getting it to dry uniformly and ended up with some cracking which he then painted more varnish over. Interestingly that actually ended up as quite a nice effect which you unfortunately can’t see in the photos.

 Posted by at 1:38 pm

Hirst Arts Cathedral: Casting

 Mordheim, Warhammer 40k  6 Responses »
Mar 172006
 

Hirst Arts Cathedral Casting I’m still slowly casting up for the Hirst Arts Cathedral while trying to finish other projects. This chart of required pieces comes from Bruce Hirst’s PDF plans. The green pieces are those I have finished casting and the blue numbers are my cast counts for the unfinished pieces. Most of the casting left to do is from the Bell Tower mold.

I’ve made a few changes to the plans, dropping the original floor in favour of one made from the Gothic Floor mold – which is why all of the plan floor pieces have been ignored. I’ve also decided not to include the decorative 1/4″ squares on the buttresses and towers and will instead use the plain 1/4″ gothic square – simply because I think the decorative pieces are too floral for 40k.

I’m not overly concerned with how many roof sections I’ve cast either because at most my Cathedral will have a ruined roof, and at least just exposed balsa wood beam-work. I figure most weapons in 40k are sufficiently explosive to remove the cathedral roof and blow out all the windows (hence little or no stained glass work either). At least that’s my rationale for not bothering to build the entire roof!

 Posted by at 1:01 pm

Future of Flames of War

 Flames Of War  6 Responses »
Mar 152006
 

The Flames of War site has just posted an interesting article about the future plans for the game.

As expected the focus is on Late War for the next five years but there’s some news for Mid war players in the article so check it out.

Most interesting to me is Battlefront’s approach to releasing second edition Flames of War! Wow…that’s certainly different from other gaming companies and is sure to foster a lot of goodwill in the FOW gaming community.

Thank you Battlefront!

 Posted by at 12:51 pm

Dustan’s City Fight Table

 Warhammer 40k  No Responses »
Mar 152006
 

Dustans City Fight Table I regularly game with a handful of like minded adults in the Auckland region. We’re quite a mixed bag talent-wise, with some preferring the games, some preferring working with figures and some of us being terrain fanatics.

Dustan is probably the ‘renaissance gamer’ of our group, being good at all aspects of the hobby. He also works really fast as we saw when he painted some ridiculous number of Orks in a space of months during the Pityak midwinter army contest.

Dustans City Fight Table These photos are of his latest project – a gaming table for Warhammer 40k City Fight that he created in around 12 hours.

It’s based on 2′ x 2′ slabs of 10mm MDF that have been built up into city blocks with thinner MDF and some surplus linoleum floor tiles. The roadways and pavements have been painted with ‘White Knight Spray Stone’ which is a cheap ‘paint effect in a can’ that you can buy locally from Bunnings.

Dustan's City Fight Table I’ll admit initially I was unsure about the red lino tiles…but after seeing the table a few time they’ve grown on me. They add a nice splash of colour and look fine once terrain is down on them. The only problem of such a regular layout is it aids in estimating ranges once you know the dimensions of the roads and tiles. Dustan has actually toned the tiles down quite a bit too by rubbing them with black paint.

Dustan mentioned creating some more of these table tiles and selling them on TradeMe (his user name is dustan) so I’d keep an eye on there if you’d like some of your own! I believe the set in these photos will also appear in the Vagabond, Takapuna store as a game table in the future.

They look so good for such minimal effort that I’ll definitely have to rip them off at some point in the future. Err maybe once I actually build some City Fight terrain!

 Posted by at 11:20 am

Warhammer 40k RPG Announced

 Warhammer 40k  9 Responses »
Mar 152006
 

This is an interesting announcement from Black Industries (part of the GW publishing business).

The odd thing is I thought we already had a 40k Roleplaying Game from Specialist Games – called Inquisitor.

It sounds like the announced ‘Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy’ is using the same back story as Inquistor as you ‘play an Inquisitor’s Retinue’. So is it just a re-write of Inquisitor? Or an entirely new and incompatible system? I would imagine the later is more likely given Games Workshop’s history. In which case I would imagine Inquisitor is going to be silently dropped.

Imho the reason Inquisitor failed to take hold is the ridiculous idea that we’d all play using overpriced Games Workshop 54mm figures. Anybody that was interested in playing it would almost certainly have at least one 40k 28mm scale army already. So of course you’d simply use those figures.

I just hope ‘Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy’ doesn’t make the same error and actually treats 28mm figures as the basic scale for the game.

Originally spotted on Tabletop News Blog.

 Posted by at 8:27 am

Plaster Cast Flames of War Buildings

 Flames Of War  No Responses »
Mar 142006
 

Urthman's Flames of War Buildings Urthman over on the Flames of War forums has made a post about the process he used to create these great looking buildings.

I found it particularly interesting that he created the brick wall masters from high density blue foam. I’ve seen other tutorials that recommend scribing plaster walls for a brick effect which seems like a lot more effort than simply taking an xacto knife and a ruler to some foam. The other advantage of foam is of course it can be textured by pressing with various rough surfaces for a more worn look.

I will definitely have to try this for myself.

 Posted by at 9:11 am
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